The chapter narrates the process of mapping used by the Philippine Alliance (made up of HPFPI, PACSII, TAMPEI, LinkBuild and CoreAcs) and analyses how such a process motivates multiple stakeholders across the city to engage in collective learning spaces.

Do you know how to play chess? Some people would classify it as an ‘intellectual’ game. Apparently chess is very much like life, it teaches you to think, plan, organise your thoughts, and take action. “The modern game—essentially unchanged now for about 500 years—is perfectly designed to stretch the human mind to its outermost limits,…

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Engaging Urban aims to inspire the concept of a city that is actively catalysing knowledge production, engagement and transformation through collective action.

This space is for discussion, analysis and better understanding of how knowledge can be used in planning, policy, activism and direct interventions to promote more socially just, accountable, sustainable and accessible cities.